Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
This is a different version of another suggestion in this category. The orginal suggested having 2 people come into the classroom while a class member is blind folded, one known to the person the other a stranger. This suggestion might work better for time constraints, a very small branch or ward where there are rarely strangers or giving a talk in front of a group: I printed up a picture…
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Start by holding up a relatively crisp bill. Ask how much this bill is worth. Then crumble it up into a ball, stomp on it, punch it down, do whatever you want to make it yucky. Finally, unfold the bill and hold it up again. Ask how much it is worth now. Is there anyone who wouldn’t want it now that is has been tarnished? Point out that this is…
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Tell the story of “The March of the Penguins” Talk about how the penguins had to endure together through the worst conditions in order to live. We as ward members will all go though hard times in our lives but if we can endure together our reward will be great. Like the penguins who’s reward is their offspring. I also had little chocolate penguins to hand out at the end…
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Display nice cake. Ask who would like a piece. Sometimes no one will take a piece as they smell a rat! I’ll then cut a nice piece for one of the leaders – given on the china with a nice napkin and fork. They usually tell me how tasty it is and then the girls all want a piece. I then slash a hunk of cake off ;and toss it…
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You can either read the following quote in class and/or tie it to each pretzel as a hand out: In about 610 A.D. a very creative Alpine Monk decided to make use of the pieces of dough left over from baking bread. The Monk formed them into thin strips folded into a looped twist to represent the folded arms of children in prayer. This scrumptious treat was given to the…
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You have a really good cake on the table. You ask if anybody would like a piece of cake. Pick someone, tell them to come up to the front and put on the apron (it is a messy cake). Then, grab a piece of cake with your hands, and throw it at the unsuspecting victim. Ask the rest of the class if they would like a piece of cake. (hopefully…
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I gave each girl a bowl of ice cream. I put out the toppings that are usually not used for ice cream, but were good when used as toppings on other things and asked the girls to come up and choose their toppings so that they could eat their ice cream while I taught the lesson. Hopefully no one wanted any of the things on their ice cream and just…
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First ask for four volunteers and tell them that they are going to be decieved. Ask each volunteer who they think that they can win, to distract them from the fact they are going to be decieved. Tell them to kneel around the baking sheet. Tell them ypu are dropping candy and whomever gets it the fastest gets to keep it, but they have to keep their eyes on the…
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To begin the lesson, pass around the muffin box with a mix inside. Have students look at the box. Smell the box. Ask them what their opinions are. “It’s just a box.” Next pass around the freshly made muffins in the basket. Ask the students to look at the muffins and smell them. What is the difference? “The second one is more interesting, desirable.” With the muffin box, it didn’t…
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Remove the label from a can of soup and put it on a completely diffrent can of soup, such as put a label from a can of green pea soup onto a can of tomato soup. The labels are usually easy to remove and replace. Ask the class what is in the can, then open the can and show that the label on the can was wrong. Instead of green…
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Have each student put a rubber band around his/her wrist and through out the week when they use inappropriate language, pop the rubber band. the pop will sting their wrist. This will be the consequence of using bad language.
Prepare a memory game by filling a box with 20 small objects. Include one very memorable object such as a $10 bill. Tell the class you are going to play a memory game. Take the lid off of the box and use the timer to give the class members about one minute to observe and memorize what is inside. Put the lid back on the box and then instead of…
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